Restoring Resilience

19/12/2024

The GROW Working with Children Program emphasises the foundational role of attachment in relationships to foster healthy emotional regulation and stress management in children. It provides a relational neurobiological framework to guide caretakers, educators, and professionals in developing secure attachment bonds. These bonds play a critical role in co-regulating emotional states, shaping a child's ability to experience, tolerate, and express a broad range of emotions—both positive and negative. Attuned adult caretakers are essential not only for down-regulating distress but also for up-regulating positive emotional states, thereby enhancing a child's resilience and overall wellbeing.

Recent advances in relational neurobiology and epigenetics highlight the profound influence of relationships, dyadic interactions, and social experiences on gene expression and brain maturation. These findings have significant implications for preventing the onset of psychiatric disorders and adult mental health issues by fostering secure attachment relationships in early life and providing the presence to set up the neural circuitry platform needed to navigate adversity and have the emotional bandwidth to respond in ways that foster connection as opposed to protection.

The GROW Program aims to equip caregivers, educators and professionals with a deeper understanding of how to support healthy brain development, emotional regulation, and long-term mental health in children and youth, ultimately contributing to the prevention of trauma, disease and the promotion of connection, resilience, community, health and wellbeing.

Join us for the GROW Working with Children and Youth Training at Veriu Melbourne, located at 91/101 Therry St, Melbourne VIC 3000. The event will take place on January 30 and 31st 2025, from 9:30 AM to 3:30 PM.

Cost: $250 per person
Please note: The event fee does not include food, so please plan accordingly.
Recording Notice: By attending, you agree to allow the session to be recorded for use in our subscription service.
We look forward to seeing you there!

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19/12/2024

05/12/2024

Children are like emotional barometers, instinctively attuned to the emotional climate of their caregivers. When parents carry unresolved emotional wounds or patterns, these can unconsciously seep into the parent-child dynamic, influencing the child’s development and sense of self.

Making the unconscious conscious is one of the most profound gifts a parent can offer. Here’s why:

Breaking Cycles:
By addressing and healing their own wounds, parents can break intergenerational cycles of trauma or dysfunction, ensuring they don’t pass these patterns onto their children.
Creating Emotional Safety:
When parents are self-aware and emotionally regulated, they create a secure base for their children, fostering trust, safety, and resilience.
Modeling Healthy Coping Mechanisms:
Children learn by example. Parents who consciously process their feelings model emotional intelligence, showing their children how to navigate and express emotions in healthy ways.
Building Authentic Connections:
Self-awareness allows parents to be more present and attuned to their children’s needs, strengthening the parent-child bond and supporting the child’s emotional development.
Fostering Independence and Emotional Resilience:
When parents own their emotional landscape, children are less likely to feel burdened by their caregivers' unresolved emotions. This enables them to develop their own identity and resilience without taking on the weight of their parents' struggles.
Parenting, then, becomes a parallel journey of self-growth and connection—a process of nurturing not just the child but the parent’s own inner world, ultimately creating a more harmonious and nurturing environment for both.

29/11/2024

Here is the story and its interpretation:

The story goes like this:

There was a monkey who lived in a forest tree, by a river. One day, the monkey saw a fish swimming in the river and thought the fish was struggling. Feeling compassionate, the monkey resolved to save the fish. It swiftly climbed down the tree, reached out, and grabbed the fish from the water. It then climbed back up and laid the fish on a tree branch. There, the fish flapped violently and soon died. The monkey was puzzled, it had only wanted to help.

This story highlights a fundamental idea about different perspectives, environments, and misunderstanding.

The monkey, being a land-dwelling creature, interpreted the fish's swimming as struggling or suffering because it judged the situation based on its own environment and experience. It saw the fish being underwater, not breathing air as it does, and assumed that the fish was in peril. In its well-intentioned efforts to help, it took the fish out of its natural environment and put it into its own environment, thus leading to the fish's demise.

The moral of the story is a caution against assuming that what is right or natural for one being necessarily applies to others. It warns us of the dangers of imposing our own perspectives and ways of living onto others without truly understanding their needs, their nature, or their environment. This parable also encourages us to develop a deep sense of understanding and empathy for the diverse perspectives and needs of different beings, recognizing that each has its own unique way of being in the world.

20/11/2024

Children thrive in schools when we recognize that their capacity to learn and engage is a mirror of the right-brain-to-right-brain attachment, safety, and connection they experience in their lives. A nurtured heart fosters a curious, creative and brilliant mind.

22/08/2024

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04/08/2024

Empowering social workers and therapists with Restoring Resilience GROW programs in Singapore, further igniting transformation and progress.

19/02/2024

We are excited to announce Restoring Resilience will running Somatic Experiencing® trainings in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane as of 2025! Register your interest and keep up to date on the trainings.

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